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Me here: I still exist
Me on Linkedin: Thrilled to annouce that I still exist
Honestly that movie is just the media equivalent of David Lynch masturbating to pass the time
an isreali billionare died, no wait stop laughing, theres more...
I've said it before and I'll say it again: twitter is literally just /pol with a better UI now, and it has exponentially more reach and users than /pol ever had.
Yes I agree, itβs just csam is also illegal but that doesnβt stop it
Also define βsexualβ and also what was the point in that online safety act then
Ah thatβll stop it from happening then
news.sky.com/story/ofcom-...
Theyβd ask you to leave the room before tacking on a cover charge yep
Tech man walks into a room of investors and says, "AI". Investors erupt into applause and now won't stop throwing money at him.
www.ft.com/content/02d4...
I hate the phrase anti-aging, thatβs just not a real thing. Itβs like anti-gravity. Itβs like telling us to feel bad if we canβt float. Like come on
Blend it up in a milkshake
She acts tough but actually sheβs sensitive as hell
You know what the only reason why I havenβt written a best seller yet is because Iβm terrified that Michael Hobbes will utterly obliterate me in 5-10 years
Upgrading macOS for the first time in three years so either see you tomorrow as usual or never ever again
Youβre wrong
AWS is down! Weβre all finally free! Go outside! Quicklyyyyy
Yes
a really weedy guy just asked me 'can you bench press more than me? probably right?' and to make him feel better I just said 'what's bench pressing again?'
This is why I donβt read
I'm researching a piece and I landed on this really unhinged article about coming to terms with not liking Taylor Swift's new album; I'm just impressed that she ran an MLM with such a devoted downline for this long and the cracks are only just starting to show www.yourtango.com/entertainmen...
Today is a really bad day for the rapture to happen because we can finally see time crystals for the first time ever β oh theyβre going to use them to detect fraudulent banknotes nvm the rapture may continue
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Yeah I mean I honestly thought they were just two terms for the same thing but MLM is like actually legitimised through regulations because of lobbying and so has some very minor technical differences that are quite easy to skirt around because it takes regulators too long to notice an MLM lol
and now we're so deep in the 'selling is good' idea that we accept vapour and imaginaries as real products, and even buy THEM and build the house of cards even HIGHER. Anyway it's interesting...
and how this concept of like a gross sweaty door-to-door salesperson was transformed into empowerment and sold to single mums who then had to sell the idea of empowerment to like ten other mums etc etc
and then: "if you give me money, I will teach you how to tell other people to give you money"
Making a podcast series about scams right now and am realising that the basis for so many MLM type things is "if you give me money I will show you how to get rich"
Did anyone else find the UK wide government emergency test alert noise very soothing
It would cost @blackskyweb.xyz $160K annually to do automated video and image moderation for every post in the Blacksky feed.
This is a huge barrier to new apps being built on @atproto.com.
I talk about all this + more with @alixdunn.com for Computer Says Maybe.
My #Nodestar episode drops tomorrow.
When will it end ffs